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stsquad has pulled the plug on his webmail; that or he's having a temporary unintentional outage. Either way it has motivated me to finally get off my arse[1] and think about what I'm going to do when Bennee.com goes down For The Forseeable Future.
Bennée has been hosting my (largely disused) website and serving my (vastly more essential) email for a good 2-3 years now, as well as operating a nameserver for both those features. Web space is easy enough to come by; if all else fails I can switch back to Compsoc by one means or another. Ditto mail - I'm planning to attempt some sort of sleight-of-electrickery that will result in my andysdrawings.co.uk mail proceeding directly to a Gmail account, or some such. No, the sticking point is the nameserver.
We do a bit of nameservery at work - and I will probably ask around there at some point - but I don't want to be beholden to a place of employment and I strongly suspect we have a limited number of domains (or even pay per domain). What I really want here is a friend who runs their own NS, or failing that, advice on what commercial DNS is reliable and cheap. The one we use at work is www.zoneedit.com, which seems pretty good, and looks like it might be free for a single (<200MB p/a) domain. (I don't think my domain can be particularly high-traffic, unless I were to start hosting my webcomic there.)
So, anyway ... that's what lies in front of me. Any ideas?
[1] Actually thinking doesn't involve the arse, does it? Nor does writing about it on an internet journal. So I suppose I am still technically arse-bound.
stsquad has pulled the plug on his webmail; that or he's having a temporary unintentional outage. Either way it has motivated me to finally get off my arse[1] and think about what I'm going to do when Bennee.com goes down For The Forseeable Future.Bennée has been hosting my (largely disused) website and serving my (vastly more essential) email for a good 2-3 years now, as well as operating a nameserver for both those features. Web space is easy enough to come by; if all else fails I can switch back to Compsoc by one means or another. Ditto mail - I'm planning to attempt some sort of sleight-of-electrickery that will result in my andysdrawings.co.uk mail proceeding directly to a Gmail account, or some such. No, the sticking point is the nameserver.
We do a bit of nameservery at work - and I will probably ask around there at some point - but I don't want to be beholden to a place of employment and I strongly suspect we have a limited number of domains (or even pay per domain). What I really want here is a friend who runs their own NS, or failing that, advice on what commercial DNS is reliable and cheap. The one we use at work is www.zoneedit.com, which seems pretty good, and looks like it might be free for a single (<200MB p/a) domain. (I don't think my domain can be particularly high-traffic, unless I were to start hosting my webcomic there.)
So, anyway ... that's what lies in front of me. Any ideas?
[1] Actually thinking doesn't involve the arse, does it? Nor does writing about it on an internet journal. So I suppose I am still technically arse-bound.
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For songofsteel.org.uk and salkin.co.uk, i use the the one provided by 1and1. (Its all covered by the £5 per two years, along with email forwarding et al)
I'm sure most do.
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123reg is ok.
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However, its not unlikely you will have the same issue in a few years time, although I have no immediate plans to move.
Webmail is a different problem, as I have been meaning to properly sort out my email for years. I have been meaning to swap the whole lot into another server for ages, but still need to buy that server. Hmm, perhaps now is the time.
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It's funny because I've been getting this "bennee.com mailing list subscriptions" message every month, come rain or shine, and the first time there's something that actually warrants a message to such a list, the cable's just yanked out without so much as a hows-your-father.
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Although I do wonder if the access address may have changed and we haven't been told? I did ask for a week's notice so that I could migrate everything.....
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I do recommend to set Gmail to collect from a basic mailbox rather than have the data forwarded through the interwebs a second time. The IMAP on Gmail is a godsend; switch language to US if you've not got the option on UK English yet.
(The web dev company I work for resells basic, medium and high-end hosting from a number of suppliers and has set up custom NS in a number of different ways but it's not where we make our money nor what we want to be responsible for.)
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I vaguely recall that Black Cat offered this also, but Chez expressed a preference for hosting it himself for some reason. Possible dynamic DNS changes or some similar. I could be mistaken on this point.
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Why? The data is still being transfered a second time, just using a different protocol which requires you to furnish Google with an additional username and password and hostname that you are associated with.
I can't even see any advantage to the handling of DSNs.
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How about pointing the MX record directly to Google? No forwarding, no external web sites, just Gmail.
Google Apps: I think I'm going to like it.
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My mail I'm currently forwarding to Gmail (the VS isn't big enough to hold a decent archive). I've turned on IMAP, but have surprised myself by not using it.